Jersey Shore Science Fair 2026

10th Grade Participants

• Fares Alkhier - "Effects of Hypergravity on Taproot Mass and Leaf Area in Brassica rapa."

• Shreekrishna Avhad - "Effects of Bacillus subtilis Concentration on Drought Stress Tolerance in Brassica rapa."

  • • Awarded 3rd Place in Botany

    • Advanced to Delaware Valley Science Fair (DVSF)

• Anish Batra - "The Effect of Color Temperature on the Stomatal Size of Cherry Belle Radish Leaves."

• Bianca Bender-Joslin - "The Use of Collagen Types I & III in Planarians: Muscle, Organ, and Skin Growth."

• Mallory Brennan - "Evaluating Repurposed Textile Waste as Bio-adsorbers to Suppress Harmful Algal Bloom Growth."

  • • Awarded Honorable Mention in Environmental Science

• Justin Deng - "Evaluating Effectiveness of Flos caryophylli and Herba menthae haplocalycis Against Viability of Corynebacterium xerosis."

  • • Awarded 3rd Place in Microbiology

    • Advanced to Delaware Valley Science Fair (DVSF)

• Bener Dulger & Kanata Sasaki - "ShellShield: A Low-Cost, Calcium Carbonate Derived Paint Coating Application for Reducing High Temperatures in Low Income Neighborhoods."

  • • Awarded 1st Place in Teams

    • Advanced to Delaware Valley Science Fair (DVSF)

• Claire Guo - "The Effects of the Foliar Application of Calcium Acetate on Chlorophyll Content Present in Lactuca sativa capitata."

  • • Awarded Honorable Mention in Botany

• Eric Guo - "Advancing Scalable Quantum Algorithms for Simulating Multi-Qubit Systems with Colored Noise."

  • • Awarded 1st Place in Physics

    • Advanced to Delaware Valley Science Fair (DVSF)

• Maetham Hassam - "The Effects of Microplastic Pollution on the Rate of Regeneration for Freshwater Planaria."

• Shoshana Howard - "The Relationship Between a High-Sugar Diet, Synthetic Food Dye Red 40, and Activity Levels in Drosophila melanogaster."

  • • Awarded 3rd Place in Behavioral & Social Sciences

    • Advanced to Delaware Valley Science Fair (DVSF)

• Haoran (Newton) Hu - "Insight into Trifluralin's effect on Human and Invertebrate Cell Health."

  • • Awarded 2nd Place in Biochemistry

    • Advanced to Delaware Valley Science Fair (DVSF)

• Sophia Huang - "Tuning Hydrogel Properties For Soft Robotics: Balancing Conductivity and Flexibility using Graphite Powder."

  • • Awarded 3rd Place in Chemistry

    • Advanced to Delaware Valley Science Fair (DVSF)

• Arisha Islam - "The Effects of Polyethylene Terephthalate and Polyvinyl Chloride Consumption on the Fecundity of Drosophila melanogaster with PCOS Symptom Exhibition."

  • • Awarded 3rd Place in Medicine & Health

    • Advanced to Delaware Valley Science Fair (DVSF)

• Siuming Jiang - "Therapeutic Effects of Acoustic and Ultrasonic Sound Waves on Proliferation of  Adult Stem Cells in Planarians."

• Abbi Kotikovski - "The Effect of Folic Acid with Ergothioneine Exposure on Epidermal Human Skin Cell Migration."

• Alexis Lee - "The Effects of Curcumin and Riboflavin in Combination with Environmental Conditions on the Lifespan of Male Drosophila melanogaster."

  • • Awarded Honorable Mention in Zoology

• Angela Lin - "Impact of Arrowroot Starch and Heat Treatment on the Tensile Strength of Bioplastics."

  • • Awarded 3rd Place in Environmental Science

    • Advanced to Delaware Valley Science Fair (DVSF)

• Daniel Lutz - "The Impact of Downstream Distance from the Swimming River Reservoir Spillway on Sediment, Phosphate, and Nitrate Levels."

• Christian McBride - "An Analysis of the Effect of Diphenhydramine on the Rate of Negative Geotaxis in Drosophila melanogaster with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis."

  • • Awarded 1st Place in Medicine & Health

    • Advanced to Delaware Valley Science Fair (DVSF)

• Jasmine Ni - "The Physiological and Emotional Response of People With Varying Degrees of Honesty in Prosocial Moral Dilemmas."

• Aaron Okon - "The Effect of Aspartame on the Speed of Reactionary Motor Skills within Drosophila melanogaster models with Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 1."

  • • Awarded Honorable Mention in Medicine & Health

• Evangelos Parameritis - "Effect of various stress factors on the mass consumption of 15 Subject Founder Drosophila melanogaster populations."

  • • Awarded Honorable Mention in Behavioral & Social Sciences

• Harsh Patel - "Cost-effective Ways to Achieve Water Purification Using Different Chemical Combinations."

• Shivam Patel - "Structural Stability of Dwarf Grey Sugar Pea Plants When Decapitating the Stem at Different Times"

• Jack Pellegrini - "Effects of Glucose on Memory Retention in Different Regenerating Planarian Body Segments."

  • • Awarded 3rd Place in Zoology

    • Advanced to Delaware Valley Science Fair (DVSF)

• Kanishk Prakash - "Using Machine Learning to Predict Pediatric Asthma ER Visits Based on Pollution Exposure in Urban Areas."

  • • Awarded Honorable Mention in Computer Science

• Briyana Suthar - "The Impact of Silicon Dioxide Nanoparticles on Dugesia tigrina Regeneration."

• Hairong (Amy) Wang - "Affordable pH-Responsive Pulsatile Drug Delivery via a Novel Hydrogel-Gated External Reservoir for Infection-Triggered Chronic Wound Management."

  • • Awarded 1st Place in Biochemistry

    • Advanced to Delaware Valley Science Fair (DVSF)

• Ethan Yip - "Accuracy of depression detection on DepRoBERTa tuned on aggregated data by user-level groupings."

  • • Awarded Honorable Mention in Computer Science

• Marcus Zhang - "A Study of the Neural Network Reduction Through the Partial Enforcement of Tared Weights."

  • • Awarded 3rd Place in Computer Science

    • Advanced to Delaware Valley Science Fair (DVSF)

• Isaac Zurkovsky - "Planarian Reaction Time to Light After Regeneration Under Influence of Polystyrene Microplastics."

12th Grade Participants

• Rahul Gupta - "KesslerNet: Machine Learning Orbital Perturbations for Kessler Syndrome Prediction"

  • • Awarded 2nd Place in Earth & Space Science

    • Advanced to Delaware Valley Science Fair (DVSF)